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He graduated in 1964 from L.B. Landry High School in New Orleans, but would have been a Booker T. Washington graduate had he not been banned from public and private schools in Caddo for his involvement in the Civil Rights movement. He is an active ... More

Former city contractor Frank Fradella, who was a key witness in the trial that led to the conviction of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, was sentenced to one year and a day in prison in federal court Wednesday. ... Among the testimony that led to ...More

Mayor Mitch Landrieu kicks off 2015 budget hearings at L.B. Landry High School in Algiers. Mitch Landrieu: Photo of the Day. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu plans to host the first of five budget hearings at the L.B. Landry High School in Algiers ...More

The "new'" school, a result of the recent merging of former schools, O. Perry Walker High School and L.B. Landry High School, came together in their orange, gold and blue pride against Lake Area New Tech Early College at Behrman Stadium in Algiers on ... More

New Orleans police said Danshaun Hampton was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Johan Kenner. Kenner was shot in St. Roch Park on June 8. Hampton was already in custody at the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's ... More

In the past two weeks, Superintendent Patrick Dobard fired the principal at Walter Cohen High School and went ahead with a small number of budget-related layoffs in other district-run schools that put the head football coach at L.B. Landry High School...More

Armant said that the new school will build upon the legacy of L.B. Landry High School, which was founded in 1937 with the mission to educate African-Americans on the West Bank of New Orleans. He assured that ACSA doesn't intend to build toward a future ... More

J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, who authored the bill requiring community input in RSD decisions, said the law may not give local groups much ammunition. As with any law, Morrell said, he had to compromise to win enough votes in the Legislature, and in ... More